Word: generously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lewinsky affair. Example: If it wasn't sexual, has the President told her what the relationship between himself and the intern was? "Yes, and we'll find that out as time goes by," she promised. Did Clinton give Lewinsky gifts? "It's possible," admitted Hillary. "He is a generous person." How did she find out about these allegations? Clinton himself told her. "He woke me up Wednesday morning and said, 'You're not going to believe this, but... I've got to tell you what's in the newspapers...
...interests, and in a year that had seen far too many fund-raising stories about Jakarta's Mochtar Riady and the Lippo Group, the Administration could hardly take the lead for anything Indonesian. Despite prosperity at home, the nation--and Congress in particular--was in no mood to be generous. In November, Congress killed $3.5 billion in new borrowing authority for the IMF as part of an unrelated dispute over foreign family-planning funds...
...departure from the business--its Universal Card portfolio is being sold to Citibank for $3.5 million--is the latest buyout, as the industry consolidates in an attempt to get back on the gravy train it once rode. With fewer big competitors, the remaining card issuers are getting less generous. AT&T's initial no-fee offer inspired a wink of inducements from other issuers, each upping the ante with low initial rates and rebates. And consumers snapped them up, stuffing an average of seven cards in their wallets...
...year to take stock of things. "It was pretty heavy, pretty wild," recalls Louis-Dreyfus. "There were no tears shed, but there was a lot of heart thumping." Seinfeld was relieved to find the cast agreed with him: "They just started making good money last year, but they were generous enough to respect the timing of the curve--not that they could have talked me out of it, I don't think...
...executives knew, of course, that Seinfeld would not last forever, but they were hoping to have another year to nurture a successor hit. The network made an extraordinarily generous deal with Bright/Kauffmann/Crane, the creators of Friends and Veronica's Closet, to develop a comedy about a single mother. With the schedule in flux, that show will have a tougher time finding an audience. Fortunately for NBC, it still has the rest of the season to experiment. It could build up Frasier or 3rd Rock by putting them after Seinfeld. Meanwhile, Just Shoot Me, a modest success starring Laura San Giacomo...